compot

English

Noun

compot (countable and uncountable, plural compots)

  1. Dated form of compote (“the spreadable food”).
    • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “Which Concerns the Grand Dinner at the King’s House, and Who Were There, and Something of Their Talk, Reveries, Disputes, and General Jollity”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 233:
      "She knows well enough I like her," so his liking said in confidence to his vanity, and even he hardly overheard them talk; "better a great deal than I knew it myself, till old Strafford got together this confounded stupid dinner-party (he caught Miss Chattesworth glancing at him with a peculiar look of inquiry). Why the plague did he ask me here? it was Puddock's turn, and he likes venison and compots, […]"
  2. Alternative form of kompot (“European dish of boiled fruits”).

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French compote.

Noun

compot n (plural compoturi)

  1. compote

Declension

Declension of compot
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative compot compotul compoturi compoturile
genitive-dative compot compotului compoturi compoturilor
vocative compotule compoturilor
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